Over the last few weeks we’ve been planning the exciting opportunity of Project Week. Project week is a student experience in which a group of 5-6 are able to travel to a destination of choice on a budget, the goal of the trip is to gain valuable life experience, planning, collaboration, and to complete our […]
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Chairs Visioning Conference // Service
On the 15th of February, I was graciously invited to the first service chair visioning conference, an student led opportunity to gather all the GC, Local and Global service leaders and discuss the future of service. It was the first-of-its-kind and from my standpoint I thought it was a really positive experience. Despite not really […]
Half-Term Check-in
Half Term Evaluation As we have just finished the first 8 of 16 weeks of term one, I’d like to reflect on all my current activities and services which I’ve decided to partake in. In relativity to previous years, I’ve taken a lot upon myself, but my organization skills has also significantly increased. They have […]
Hougang Visit // Tech Tinkers
For the CAS leaders we were given the option of a side trip involving a off campus investigation to the Hougang Care Center for the college service, Tech Tinkers. Tech Tinkers is an activity based on 3 basic steps of action: acquiring tech , renewing tech, and finding new homes of need for tech. The […]
Shopping Bag Aid // Mini Project
During this project we were tasked with creating a product to aid in the task of carrying plastic bags. It’s an introduction to problem analysis, prototyping, formatting pages, working in the design tech labs, learning the grading criteria, among other things. These skills will come in use later when we finally start our major project. […]
Club Championships // Swimming
Club Championships is the annual event held by the UWCSEA swim team, it’s an small early season meet meant to increase team moral and to give an indication of the upcoming meets. The meet is held over 3 days, Wednesday morning (19/09), Friday afternoon (21/09), and Saturday (22/09), this makes it unique as it’s built […]
Swimming Goals // Beginning of the year
Goals are important, especially in a sport in which require a lot of training. Its easy to forget what it’s all for, goal setting sheets help keep focus through the tough times. It’s early season, so these goals will be an insight into the rest of the year (in terms of swimming). Being specific to what […]
Emotional Intelligence and Visualisation Task
In this task we are asked to give the different characteristic that I admire and dislike, I thought of people I enjoyed and those I didn’t. From there I narrowed it down to what exactly was it that I liked/disliked about that person. This is valuable learning as it can help me identify what type […]
Essential Questions on Environmental Unit
What is the environment? The environment is the world we live in, from the soil we build on, the oceans we sail, the sky we fly in and the forest and mountains we explore. It is the natural world around us, as a whole, especially areas in which humans have interfered. Why are some environmental […]